Almost everyone has a guy or uses some software. Those two things don’t help them understand and this misconception of how taxes work is but a small sample of how people form political decisions without any viable understanding of the situation they’re in or the repercussions of their actions.

Nobody’s just making out a check for 30% and mailing it off to the IRS.

This is absolutely an educational failing. We barely cover taxes in school. At best it’s said once in a class, gets covered in a minor question on a test and if we get it wrong, no one notices. “We” probably still got a B on the test without any CLUE how taxes work.

Yet here we are, dismantling any nationwide effort to make education better.

A LOT of people think 99,999 tax is 27,999 and 100,001 is 29,000, even on the democrat side. If those charts are accurate, it’s probably damn close to 50% of US citizens.

e a word that just means 80 in people’s mind, it kinda not literal anymore, but the Swiss and Belgian ways are still better (edit the 4x20+10 is s

And if it was 28 syllables, it would still be 80 in people’s minds. But the words are still four twenty eight for what could easily just be nine eight.

I get it, but it is really inefficient for something as oft used as counting.

If it makes you feel better, English is full of crap like that which doesn’t make any sense and I’ll own that as a trash language :)

Communism isn’t bad, it just crumples as soon you put anything but saints in charge of it.

I’m not entirely sure anything works better in a long-term scenario though :)

secretly program

I fear Asimov’s three rules are not going to make it into the GOP Murderbots.

Ehh, i’m not giving France a pass either.

The answer to 100 - 8 should not be four twenties and a twelve. We’re counting, not making change.

French counting is bunk. Way, Way, better then Denmark though apparently

New York prices, likely

Campaign against EV’s for years.

Bitch about solar.

Send videos around of large generators charging some stuck teslas for half a decade and laugh about those stupid libs, don’t they know where the power comes from?

then

Ohh, umm Buy a Tesla! get that uhhh computer…

Not just yet… we’re waiting for checks notes the government to individually wrong every last one of us directly while not hurting our enemies in any way

I mean not me, My pitchfork is fresh, but I’m not going out until there’s a crowd :) Murderbots will be hunting me down in the street.

My real worry is that instead of calling on the military to quell violence, they’ll call the military industrial complex who will send in the murder drones.

The real hard part is it’s a partial truth.

The sellers do pay the tariffs, they just don’t talk about what that does to the prices.

The other problem is it cuts both ways, and a number of the idiots will say as long as you’re hurting them too, fine.

And then we have retaliatory tariffs, which also cut both ways.

IMHO, our biggest issue is we’ve been using cheap Chinese products and labor as a crutch instead of increasing wages. They’ve been able to cut down wages because Amazon, Temu and Shein have been providing products WAY WAY under marketable US made prices.

Sounds promising except the fact that IPFS runs like hot garbage.

I’m running my own IPFS stuff and unless I explicitly add my servers as peers I get about a 1 in 50 chance of finding something I pin somewhere else.